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"Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian."

David Codrea - A wanted man and 'a true success story'

Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner

 

 

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What Would Jesus Steal?

 

At a loss for words.

 

Baby Jesus thefts seem to be epidemic

 

..."My grandson asked, 'Why would someone take baby Jesus right before Christmas?'" Elenbaas said...

...Despite being chained, a Jesus also vanished from the Clover Pass Community Church in Ketchikan, Alaska...

...In Arkansas, a Jesus was recovered -- but it was damaged and marked with "racial slurs, a swastika and a Hitler mustache,"...

 

With a really liberal interpretation of God, one might be able to get away with not believing, but I doubt one can get off so easily for drawing swastika's on a baby Jesus.

 

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A bit about 'universal' health care

 

Regarding my prior post 'Yeah, what they said';

 

The original post at Ranting's of a Sandmonkey, moving towards a divided world - I had to post this in the comments.

 

Slippery slope it is indeed.

 

Adam said: “…public healthcare is free at the expense of tax-payers (something most of us consider a good thing,…”

Well, no, most of us don’t consider it a good thing. There are several problems with state sponsored health care. One of which is that taking the profit motive out of health care effectively stops the advances of medical science. Worldwide socialized medicine treats it’s subjects using techniques, pharmaceuticals and equipment developed by profit based medicine (primarily the U.S.). I suppose it’s great that the rest of the world can take advantage of the gift of life given to it by the U.S., but that doesn’t mean that state health care is the best thing since sliced bread.

 

The other problem is the placing of ones health as a burden on society, and therefore subject to government control as the prior commentators talk of. If one’s body is subject to control by the state it is nothing less than a loss of liberty. Couching it in terms like ‘responsibility’, ‘duty’ or ‘obligation’, while making it more palatable does not negate the loss of freedom entailed.

 

In a society where the people have already traded their freedoms in order to be cared for, this conversation is really moot. The deed is done and all that is left is the rationalizing we see here.

 

But a society that is still nominally free must guard against the encroaching tide of state sponsored guardianship in the name of equity. Following that path leads to a uniformity of will that is as oppressive as a jail cell.

 

 

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Yeah, what they said

Found this over at Ranting's of a Sandmonkey

 

Moving towards a divided world

 

An excerpt;

You know, in 10 years or so I can totally see this world divided up into two very different worlds: One, where the citizens of the  so called advanced and civilized nations get to have their full political rights and freedom (freedom pf speech, democracy, blah blah), but won't have the right or freedom to do much else, because "it's bad for them"; and the other, made up of "less advanced nations", where you won't really have your full- or any- political rights, but you could do whatever you damn well please otherwise.

 

A nice bit of back and forth in the comments as well.  I thought it went well with my earlier post "A Liberal Dichotomy" although I don't think I expressed myself as well as I wanted to.

 

 

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